kernel recognizes Wi-Fi card but ifconfig doesn't

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I have an old laptop with an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000, supported according to the iwn(4) man page. The drivers, iwn and iwn1000fw, are built in to pfSense. dmesg, clog system.log, and pciconf -lv iwn0 show it being recognized. I get the special file /dev/iwn0. It gets a memory range and IRQ. There are two UHCI (USB) controllers and the VGA display with the same IRQ. ifconfig -l returns re0 enc0 lo0 pflog0 pfsync0. This also occurs on an 11.2-RELEASE live CD of FreeBSD, though in that case I have to load the drivers manually.

The Realtek ethernet is recognized fine and works great. Xubuntu live CD sees and can use both interfaces just fine.

Solution: I read the manual

For posterity, how I managed to get pfSense to use the Wi-Fi card as WAN and ethernet as LAN:

/r/homelab/comments/7bkzh9/howto_wifi_as_wan_port_in_pfsense/

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/117126/how-to-connect-pfsense-wan-to-a-wireless-access-point

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